my elbows are drying out! help!

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I've had my first office job ever for about 6 weeks now and since then all that elbow resting has fucked them up. They've gone all dry and itchy and I'm worried I get soem horrible disease from it or something like that. Is this normal behaviour for the arm-joint region or hould I do something about it?
I was sold these elbows only 6 months back you see, so if I can find the receipt, I'll take them back to the shops. Frigging designer elbows!

― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 14 December 2002 04:37 (twenty-three years ago)

you ashy!! get some lotion

― ron (ron), Saturday, 14 December 2002 04:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, what ron said. Moisturize, moisturize, moisturize!

― rosemary (rosemary), Saturday, 14 December 2002 05:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Or you could sew on those math teacher-esque cushiony brown corduroy elbow patches on all your jackets?

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 14 December 2002 05:14 (twenty-three years ago)

or on yr elbows if u don't like wearing jackets

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 14 December 2002 11:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Evening primrose oil.

― Price, Saturday, 14 December 2002 12:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Patches sound pretty flash.

― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 14 December 2002 14:09 (twenty-three years ago)

it's magnetic so you don't have to worry abt finding paperclips

http://www.fdp-magnetics.com/images/ELBOW-WRAP.JPG

― erik, Saturday, 14 December 2002 14:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Central heating in office buildings will really do that to you, plus the arm-resting bit. This is my favorite lotion:
http://store6.yimg.com/I/kiehls_1717_769918

You can get it online or in NYC or at Neiman-Marcus. Looks expensive but an 8-oz bottle has lasted me over a year. And it's seriously the best, even if you're a lotion-phobic boy: non-scented and once it sinks in you're not greasy.

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 14 December 2002 14:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh and drink lots of water, the beauty magazines say, but that eight-glasses-a-water-a-day thing recently got disproved and I can't stand having to run to the bathroom all the time.

― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 14 December 2002 14:54 (twenty-three years ago)

where did it get disproved? that'd be great news

― ron (ron), Saturday, 14 December 2002 22:54 (twenty-three years ago)

You need salve.

― Bryan (Bryan), Saturday, 14 December 2002 23:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Everyone else is OTM.

― Rockist Scientist, Sunday, 15 December 2002 00:23 (twenty-three years ago)

dog latin, your elbows are supposed to be dry until you want to eat them. They keep better that way. Next, after you boil them, either eat them soon after, or, if you're like me and you like to put your elbows in macaroni salad, you can keep them moist with a little mayonaise.

― Aimless, Sunday, 15 December 2002 00:36 (twenty-three years ago)

one month passes...

Why oh why did I take my lotion home and not bring it back to work?

(BTW, I love this RANDOM thread feature - is that new?)

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 27 January 2003 19:45 (twenty-three years ago)

and my elbows are now nice and soft like they used to be! thank you ILX!

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 27 January 2003 20:06 (twenty-three years ago)

You know what helps? That medication they sell for cow udders. It smells godawful though.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 07:21 (twenty-three years ago)

use the moisturizer within the first few minutes out of the shower.

and don't wear wool on bare elbows.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 07:29 (twenty-three years ago)

four years pass...

I was sold these elbows only 6 months back you see, so if I can find the receipt, I'll take them back to the shops. Frigging designer elbows!
-- dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 14 December 2002 04:37 (4 years ago) Bookmark Link

jokes

― Dom Passantino, Friday, 13 July 2007 09:39 (eighteen years ago)

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